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As we first told you on our Montana Talks radio show last Summer, officials at Glacier National Park were removing signs warning that the glaciers would be gone by 2020 due to climate change. Why? Well, because 2020 was quickly approaching, and unlike their climate predictors predicted...the glaciers weren't going to be gone by 2020.

Now that it's been shown that Whitefish got the job done, and still isn't being paid- you'd think all the groupies who piled on two years ago would now be willing to come forward and admit that they they got it wrong and rushed to judgement.

Why did Democrats and Republicans alike fail to stand up for this company? Should Montana's elected officials apologize to Whitefish Energy? And, how can Montanans make sure this Montana business gets paid? Check out our full exclusive interview with Whitefish Energy CEO Andy Techmanski below.

On Monday, I caught up with the Flathead's Frank Miele over breakfast at Sykes Diner in Kalispell. Miele now has his own Heartland Diary USA blog, which recently got quoted by Rush Limbaugh. We talked everything from Trump, to Socialism, the transgender movement, and the Montana Democrat Party convention over the weekend.

Retired Major General Paul Vallely has a plan for securing the border. He shared his thoughts with The Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell. We'll get to that, but first- here's a must-read column by The Inter Lake's editor Frank Miele.

"Work has slowed to a crawl since Whitefish Energy was removed from the project." Miele sums it up by saying, "the only reason why Whitefish Energy lost the contract was politics."